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03-01-2008, 12:18 PM
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| | | Fiction containing mentally ill characters
I'll start it off-
Tender is the Night/ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Story about a psychologist who gets involved with his 18-year old patient and ends up marrying her. This novel was closest to Fitzgerald's heart because Zelda Fitzgerald was a schizophrenic and alcoholic. I highly recommend this book, especially to people who have been in a relationship that was highly inspiring at first and then somewhere down the line morphed into nothing but resentment. |
03-01-2008, 12:25 PM
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| | | I'll say The Bell Jar before anyone else can
And The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson, lawl |
03-01-2008, 01:48 PM
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| | | ^ dollie_midget beat me to the most obvious one, The Bell Jar.
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb. A set of twins boys, and one is a paranoid schizophrenic. It goes more into the mind of the main character, who is the twin dealing with having a schizophrenic brother, how it impacts his life, going through mental facilities, etc. |
03-01-2008, 03:09 PM
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| | | one flew over the cuckoo's nest !!
catcher in the rye
betty blue by philippe djian |
03-01-2008, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Beatrice  one flew over the cuckoo's nest !! | beat me to it! The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
its about a 15 year old autistic boy, very good. |
03-01-2008, 03:50 PM
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| | | Blanche from A Streetcar Named Desire, it's a play but still. |
03-01-2008, 04:46 PM
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| | | I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Joanne Greenburg |
03-01-2008, 05:00 PM
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| | i love almost every book listed so far 
dm thomas - the white hotel
charlotte bronte - jane eyre
george bernard shaw - saint joan
sebastian faulks - human traces
macbeth
king lear
girl, interrupted, obviously |
03-01-2008, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by lilybett macbeth | gah this is a good one! |
03-01-2008, 05:40 PM
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| | | can i have othello, too? iago as having narcissistic personality disorder and his being passed over for the lieutenant job is the narcissistic wound which leads him to whirl round in this narcissistic rage and be such a bad man? |
03-01-2008, 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by lilybett
girl, interrupted, obviously
| that is non-fiction. |
03-01-2008, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by lilybett can i have othello, too? iago as having narcissistic personality disorder and his being passed over for the lieutenant job is the narcissistic wound which leads him to whirl round in this narcissistic rage and be such a bad man? | No. Writing him off as having a personality disorder and only having a personality disorder diminishes what happens and the motives that drive him. Same for Lear. |
03-01-2008, 06:11 PM
|  | irony maiden | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: denny's.
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| | | dirty blonde by courtney love
oh and a million little pieces by james frey, also considered to be fiction.
wait no that was about addiction.
i'm trying to think of a book that i read that was like one flew over the cuckoo's nest but wasn't. it's really bugging me. |
03-01-2008, 07:40 PM
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| | | Not to mention the real life case of Susan Polk, the woman in the Bay Area who ended up going crazy and murdering her husband/former shrink who started having sex with her when she was 15. Two out of her three sons testified against her in the trial.
She just was found guilty and is gonna do life I think.
Whoops! I just realized this was in the "Written Word" section, NOT in "The Void"...sorry about that. Well, It's probably GONNA be a book very soon?? |
03-01-2008, 08:07 PM
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| | | Asylum by Patrick Mc Grath.
I love this book! |
03-01-2008, 08:41 PM
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| | | There's a book coming out in July by an author called Mark McNay about people with head fucked issues.
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03-01-2008, 09:12 PM
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| | | crime and punishment. best book ever. |
03-01-2008, 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by ironhills No. Writing him off as having a personality disorder and only having a personality disorder diminishes what happens and the motives that drive him. Same for Lear. | yeah i was going to add originally: but if i suggest this one based on how it explored human nature and what makes people tick, am i going to then have to write, like, everything he wrote cos he was so good at that? iago's just especially creepy, it is nice to think you might be able to rationalise why people behave so badly. i suppose that sort of misses the point, though..
i knew girl, interrupted was based on true events, i didn't know it was a work of non-fiction. shit! there's nowt as queer as folk.
i think maybe 'regeneration' will fit this list. my friend has raved about it but it doesn't sound like my thing. it sounds boyish. Quote:
Originally Posted by cheshirecat dirty blonde by courtney love | HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 
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03-02-2008, 08:59 AM
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| | | Crime and Punishment is not about mental illness, Raskolnikov wasn't mentally ill, the book was about nihalism. If you knew anything about Dostoevsky and the book you'd know that Mr. Dirty. |
03-02-2008, 10:27 AM
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by lilybett dm thomas - the white hotel | one of my favourite ever books
briefing for a descent into hell - doris lessing
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